Letters from miscellaneous government offices (departments) and individuals relating...

Letters from miscellaneous government offices (departments) and individuals relating to the despatches sent from the governor in 1915. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:

Miscellaneous offices:

• Imperial Institute (shortage of Fustic; tanning material Divi-Divi);
• Direct West India Cable Co (new naval wireless station; stations at Bowden, Kingston, and Bermuda; subsidy reduction; communication between British Honduras and Jamaica);
• General Medical Council (L Delmege removed from register);
• Dublin Castle (salaries of Crank and Smyth, Royal Irish Constabulary);
• Sugar Commission (gift of sugar; government sugar purchase);
• Colonial Office (passports for Jamaicans; distressed person, A Kirkwood; contingent; logwood export; passports for Mr Stangelye, J Ramsay, A Tucker, Dr J Rogers);
• Halifax and Bermuda Cable Co (wireless stations Jamaica and Bermuda);
• West Indies Chemical Works Ltd (internment of O Janzen; logwood);
• Local Government Board (treatment of Harrison steamers by Quarantine Board);
• Board of Agriculture (Plant Disease Law; import of cattle from Jamaica);
• Light Leather Trades Federation (logwood extract);
• Sugar Manufacturers' Supply Co (sugar analysis);
• Custom House (rum industry);
• United Tanners Federation, War Trade Department, Dundee Chamber of Commerce, Leeds Chamber of Commerce, British Dyewood Co, Dublin Chamber of Commerce (logwood);
• West India Committee (war gifts);
• British Museum (wild bird protection Turks and Caicos);
• Colonial Bank (shipment of US gold coin).

• Benekendorff, Berger & Co (straw paper; logwood);
• E Brownbill & Co (logwood);
• C H Burr (logwood);
• S Crank (pension);
• Miss Coffingham (mother's pension);
• G Cox (employment in Colonial Service);
• J Carter (pension);
• T C Campbell (complaint of ill treatment);
• E A de Pass (Vere Estate Co Ltd; logwood);
• S Dobree & Sons (estate R B Braham);
• A A Grant (complaint against United Fruit Company);
• T & J Harrison (treatment of steamers by Quarantine Board);
• D Jackson (pension);
• G Kenyon (logwood);
• K Louis (passage to West Indies);
• Marshall & Co (claim against and liquidation of S Bruhn & Co);
• C McNeil (sugar industry);
• Mrs Mason (pension, Captain Jackson);
• W A Orrett (salary);
• Sir Sydney Olivier (logwood);
• G Powell (cattle import UK);
• J Paterson (statement of services);
• A Rowntree (shipping of produce to UK);
• Sir C Shaw (hardware contracts);
• J Smyth (pension);
• Lord Sanderson (case of Mrs Mortley);
• Rev W Scoffer (nominations for commissions);
• C E Taylor (re-employment);
• C Widnell (proceedings against H Camacho).

Topics

Internment

International

Litigation

Labour

Trade and commerce

Radio and television

Caribbean

Pay and pensions

Ireland

Food and drink

Museums and galleries

Navy

Americas

Communications

Farming

Local Government